Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
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And so ultimately unemotional about these things, ultimately absolutely hard-headed, some would say cold-hearted.
but absolutely resolute that this beast called the party is the engine which takes China into the 21st century, not just as a country barely surviving against the external predations of the West or whoever else, but on its trajectory to become a global great power.
And that's why I always say to American interlocutors, never underestimate Xi Jinping.
Never, ever underestimate him.
Marxism, as we know, is an economic ideology, and it's all about creating ultimately an equalitarian or equal society through an equal distribution of goods, but to be achieved through a process of, quote, dialectical change.
A Leninist party is designed to accelerate the natural historical forces of change through the active intervention of a vanguard party, which accelerates the course of history through its own violent actions.
And therefore, it's a history accelerator.
That's as they see it.
Of course, when applied to China's own circumstances, this Leninism essentially has all the hallmarks of Stalin's party.
It's like Stalinism frozen in time.
It is an unrelenting discipline anchored in absolute loyalty to the leader himself.
And this is rehearsed time and time and time again in the party's internal ideological discourse.
and reflected in what the party does in practice.
It's gone through, I think, two big changes.
The first reaction under Deng Xiaoping, who effectively replaced Mao in 1978, was called the Great Period of Reform and Opening.
And reform meant basically introducing market disciplines into the economy rather than state planning.
And opening meant we, in order to grow, need to open to the outside world.
He didn't fundamentally change his Leninism.
He certainly changed its Marxism.
He changed the economic ideology in a quite artful way by saying that at this period of economic history that the factors of production changed.
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